Help Choosing Graphics Card

[wschino]

I want to upgrade my video card to a Radeon 7500 64MB DDR. I just want a good card with TV out under a 100 bucks. But isn't this considered downgrading? Gaming wise? The TV out isn't all that important if it's going to bring down my gaming performance.
But since DDR=Double Data then would it actually be 128 Single Data? Bottom line, I just want to know wich card is better : Palit Geforce2 MX400 128MB SDR or ATI Radeon 7500 64MBDDR.
Thanks for your responses.

[HAL9000]

MX cards are stripped down versions of the original chip design and just not worth getting. The 7500 is a better card between the two.

[Lord Prism]

Good Call Hal!

[Blakhart]

I agree with the foregoing.

[Nuclear Krusader]

Even when it has half the memory the GF has, HAL?

[wschino]

Yeah, being only half the memory was worrying me but I'll take your word for it. I think you know a lot more than I do. I appreciate the help guys.

[Blakhart]

As I recall, the benchmarks showed the 7500 to be faster than a mx card. Now if it was an gf4mx460, that would be just short of a gf3 speedwise.

[wschino]

But what about 64MB DDR versus 128MB SDRAM???

[glc]

I would take the 64 DDR - there aren't any games out yet that require more than 64 for optimum performance - Doom 3 is going to be the first I believe.

[wschino]

What about "powered by" ATI cards? The one I just orderd on newegg was a Sapphire manufactured card. Is this a bad thing? And wich company would have a the right drivers?

[Alaron]

The "powered by ATI" cards are perfectly safe to use. They are the cards that are built by manufacturers other then ATI, using exactly the same hardware. Sapphiretech is a very reputable ATI manufacturer, your card will run excellently. You can get new drivers right from ATIs website, www.ati.com